Abu Omar al-Turkistani

Abu Omar al-Turkistani (died 1 January 2017) was a Jabhat Fateh al-Sham leader during the Syrian Civil War.

Biography
Abu Omar al-Turkistani was born in Xinjiang, China to an Uyghur Muslim family, and he migrated to Afghanistan to train as a jihadist. He fought against the United States at the Battle of Tora Bora during the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 before fleeing to Pakistan, and he was imprisoned by the Pakistanis for a decade before being released and joining the Islamic Jihad Union. In 2015, he travelled to Syria to join the jihad there, becoming the military leader of the Ansar Jihad unit of al-Nusra Front (later Jabhat Fateh al-Sham). On 1 January 2017, he was killed in a US airstrike on his vehicle near Sarmada, Syria.